Over on The Nomos Journal last year, Paul Robertson delivered a sensational account of the mythic Cyclops through the lens of graphic narrative:

[T]he modern graphic novel arises from, and in turn influences, our modern, Western culture. This culture is globalized, includes values, such as individualism, and contains an audience well versed in postmodern ideas and literature that lend a certain type of irreverent, cheeky, and highly culturally indexed humor. Thus, certain aspects of a given story that are important within the Hebrew Bible, for example, are omitted or given a humorous re-branding explicable to its modern audience. Other elements that may seem non-essential to the original myth, meanwhile, may be kept if they fit certain modern, Western sensibilities. In these ways, the modern graphic novel retains only certain elements of ancient mythology; thus, it maintains the relevance of these stories for a modern audience.

While Robertson overlooks one Cyclops particularly dear to the superhero genre, his analysis is nonetheless impressive and cogent.

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